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Get Free Software

Posted on February 29, 2008 by flashweb

I found a site that give a software everyday. Checkout http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ Developers of software offer free software to visitors of this web site, so they can get free reviews and popularities. If you are a software developer, giving away software

Disable Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

Posted on June 9, 2007 by flashweb

To disable Windows Picture and Fax Viewer on Windows XP and Windows 2003 computers, run regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll To enable Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (if you already disabled) run regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

Dundas CreateObject failed error

Posted on March 10, 2007 by flashweb

On a Windows server, when using Dundas Upload, it show following error. The call to Server.CreateObject failed while checking permissions. Access is denied to this object. The problem is caused by windows permission. Fixed by giving user “everyone” read and

Deleting OLD mails from MailEnable Postoffice

Posted on March 9, 2007 by flashweb

On my Windows servers, we use HELM control panel with MailEnable. HELM do not limit mail box size in HELM. So users can use as much as they need, some users have over 1 GB junk mails in mail boxes.

Password length in Linux

Posted on January 17, 2007 by flashweb

I used to run local test web server with FreeBSD, which allow you to set password like “123”. I like using simple password as its local test server and i don’t want to type big and complicated passwords. Recently i

How To Create a User-Defined Service

Posted on May 22, 2006 by flashweb

This article shows how to create user defined service in Windows.   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q137890  

/var/log/audit.d taking up too much space

Posted on January 5, 2006 by flashweb

On a Linux server, /var/log/audit.d is taking up more than 40 GB space. The folder contains lot of files with name save.* You can delete these files root@server1 [/var/log/audit.d]# rm -f save.* Now you may disable audit service. To do

Free Linux/FreeBSD Control Panel

Posted on January 1, 2006 by flashweb

Webmin is a Free open source control panel for Linux and FreeBSD servers. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can

Wired DNS Problem

Posted on December 23, 2005 by flashweb

One of the site hosted on my server stoped working with “www” I have checked it with nslookup within the server. It fails for “www” [root@server10 named]# nslookup > server localhost Default server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1#53 > www.infodon.com Server: localhost

Duncan Carver’s Link Management Assistant

Posted on December 19, 2005 by flashweb

Duncan Carver’s Link Management Assistant is a SEO friendly directory script written in PHP and MySQL. This is one of the best Free Directory management script available. www.onlinemarketingtoday.com